"In the first Spider-Man - Kevin Feige reminded me of this - we really tried to get me to come on and do something, whether it was a gag or just to walk through the shot or something," Jackman revealed.

"The problem was, we couldn't find the suit. The suit was stuck in something. And so when they were in New York when I was there, we couldn't get it together."

Jackman went on to suggest that he could still appear in a future instalment, presumably alongside Andrew Garfield's new incarnation of Peter Parker.

"I actually asked some high level people about it. Because the optimist in me goes, 'Why not? Why can't we do it? You know, a split cast or whatever'," he added.

"And someone reminded that the amount of money Fox paid compared to the amount of money Disney paid is very different. So how you split that pie up? God knows.

"But in the comic books, what's great about it is they're just mashing together all the time - and it's awesome. And people are like, 'Yeah, well, let's get this one with that!'... I still think, one day, there may be an ability to do it."